Lady Libertas reached out to the Leaders of the Austin area Tea Party groups to get their official statements on Joseph Stack and to confirm … once and for all (this means you moonbats) … that Joseph Stack is NOT A TEA PARTY MEMBER and his actions are condemned unequivocally by everyone involved in the Tea Party. Lady Libertas would like to extend thoughts and | Read More »

Did I ever tell anyone here that my wife and I moved from New York City to Austin because we were tired of this airplanes-flying-into-office-buildings thing? Austin has had a few incidents recently. The Governor’s Mansion was torched; no arrest was made. Someone recently fired off a gun just outside the Capitol building. A potential Walmart shooting was caught in the nick of time. The Capitol, | Read More »

(Via Instapundit) Apparently at least one member of the Austin left-activist community was upset to at the way that one of their ‘own’ betrayed them. And by ‘betrayed them’ I mean ‘revealed details of a terrorist plot to the FBI:’ A Texas woman faces trial this month in Austin on charges she threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated an Austin-based group that planned | Read More »

(Via Instapundit) I was going to be tedious and heavy-handed about this story, but I’ve decided not to be. Somebody apparently threw this: (Text: “Keep Eastside Black. Keep Eastside Strong.”) …through a four-year-old’s window in East Austin, TX: and the cops have decided that it was not in fact a hate crime. Which is of course nonsense. Moe Lane UPDATE: Erick had some more comments | Read More »

(Click to view video. Opens in new window/tab.) A lot of people here in St. Louis are up in arms over this campaign ad released by Brewster McCracken, a candidate for Mayor of Austin, TX. McCracken levels some harsh reality. St. Louis once was one of the premier cities in the United States. As he says, we hosted the Olympics and the Worlds Fair in | Read More »

I had a great time today at the Defending the American Dream Summit. This online activism and new media conference sponsored by Americans for Prosperity is a smaller, less noisy counter to the liberal Netroots Nation event being held downtown here in Austin. It was great to spend time with fellow Austin bloggers Robbie Cooper of UrbanGrounds and Travis Fell of Voice in the Wilderness | Read More »